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Our customers drive our R&D efforts Interview with Michel Guillemet, Vice-President, responsible for the Innovative Products Business Line and R&D activies at Bull.
The R&D function at Bull has always stood shoulder to shoulder with the biggest names in the world of information technology. Its secret? Passion and expertise.
Graphical accelerators: the future of Extreme Computingby Jean-Pierre Panziera, Director of Extreme Computing Product Strategy, Bull
Even though it is currently enjoying significant expansion, High-Performance Computing (HPC) is still a niche market. Its evolution has been boosted by the adoption of new technologies, sometimes those developed for other areas of professional or even mass-market use.

La Recherche November 2011 special edition dedicated to HPC applications and technologies Supercomputers: at the frontiers of extreme computing

Revolutionizing High Performance Computing: Bull servers for GPU accelerated HPC

This brochure published by NVIDIA outlines the advantages of GPUs and describes some real-life implementations with GPUs.

IDC white paper on Bull's Extreme Computing offer

Bull's Strategy for HPC Leadership: Focused R&D To Boost Performance In Standards-Based Systems. In this white paper industry analysts IDC give their assesment of Bull's strategy and offerings in Extreme Computing."IDC believes that Bull's large and growing portfolio of HPC systems and services positions the company well to benefit from important HPC trends, including requirements for improved system performance, balance (bytes/flops ratio), density, energy efficiency, and heterogeneity (exploitation of accelerators), as well as the trend toward more outsourcing and the healthy growth IDC forecasts for the HPC market through 2014."

Gartner research note on bullx blade system "Bull Blade Servers Aim for the High-Performance Computing Market". "If you are planning a new supercomputing installation located in and around Europe, consider adding the bullx blade server to your shortlist for consideration, particularly if space, power or heat are an issue."
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19/03/2012
Bull, CEA, F4E and JAEA inaugurate the Helios supercomputer in Rokkasho (Japan), dedicated to the Nuclear Fusion program

The supercomputer, delivering over 1.5 Petaflops, will provide the computer modeling and simulation capabilities needed for the 'Broader Approach' program, linked to the ITER initiative.
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15/02/2012
CURIE speeds up European research

Capable of up to two million billion operations a second (or 2 Petaflop/s) GENCI's CURIE supercomputer - designed by Bull - opens up unprecedented new possibilities for academic and industrial research in Europe
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Tera 100 receives "TOP supercomputing achievement" award from the international HPC community
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The readers of HPCwire voted Tera 100 as the "TOP supercomputing achievement" of the year >>

November 2011
Special Edition of La Recherche - Supercomputers: at the frontiers of Extreme Computing

New horizons / Major Challenges / The future: exascale computing
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